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Originally Posted by Spiwak
::shrug:: I don't really see what the big deal is. I'm not having my parents buy "porn" because I don't really consider it "porn" (and I don't think anyone else does, either).
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Alan Moore, who really ought to know better than you considering he
wrote the book, describes it as "pornography".
Here's one relevant bit of an
interview which makes it very clear, repeatedly, that it is porn they are dealing with:
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Originally Posted by Alan Moore
We thought that those seemed like big enough themes to actually make this something that—yes, is a pornographic book, self-avowedly—but there is no reason why a book of pornography should not be drawings or writings about wantons, as I believe the word originally means. There's no reason why it shouldn't be arousing and yet also be talking about important issues, about serious human things.
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Now, whether it's intellectual or not, I have a very hard time believing that your mother would knowingly buy you
porn. More likely she doesn't
realize what she's been asked to get you for Christmas. And yes, that's more than a little disturbing.
